and for centuries have bore his image. martha teichner will report our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: the face of jesus on the blood-stained cloth he was buried in or a medieval fake. the shroud of turin is nothing if not controversial. why do you think people are so fascinated by the shroud? >> i think mainly because its image has not been explained yet. so it's a tremendous, tremendous mystery. >> reporter: later this sunday morning, a startling new take on this mysterious man of the cloth. >> osgood: faith and family are central to the life of one prominent evangelist. but by his own admission it wasn't always easy to reconcile the two. >> jesus christ has an answer to every problem that you face. >> reporter: his father was the most famous evangelist of his time. >> and christ will come into your heart and he'll make you a new person. >> reporter: but for franklin graham the past was a rocky one. >> i wanted to be a hell raiser, live my own life. if it made people mad, tough. if it disappointed people, tough. that was kind of my attitude. >> jesus christ gave his life for you. >> reporter: on this sunday morning, the gospel according to franklin graham, whether you like it or not. >> osgood: if any big leaguer could said to have delivered a perfect pitch against incredible odds, it has to be the former player our lee cowan went to visit. >> reporter: you don't have to be a fan of baseball to recognize what jim abbott did for the game. >> he did it. he did it. >> reporter: as a former major leaguer, he did it all. with only one hand. >> i faced low expectations. and that drove me a little bit. you know, i wanted to prove myself. >> reporter: he has a growing number of kids believing too. >> you're the man. >> reporter: jim abbott's improbable life later on sunday morning. >> osgood: on this weekend it's all about hope and renewal. we have the story of pilgrims in search of a miracle their goal is a small town in the foot hills of the pyrenees in france and david turecamo has joined them. >> reporter: they come by the millions every year. in search of a miracle. >> i think i have a couple more years to live. i'd like to extend that a little longer. >> a blessing for everybody, for my family. >> reporter: a visit to the town ahead this sunday morning. >> osgood: the fast draw examines the menu of the last summer. rita braver talks to the creators of the children's book the phantom toll booth. we take an easter morning look at egg shell art and more but first the headlines for this sunday morning the 8th of april, 2012. in an overnight development in those deadly shootings that have terrorized the city of tulsa, oklahoma. police arrested two suspects early this morning. dave brodie has the latest. >> reporter: police in tulsa say it's too soon to discuss a motive but they say the two men arrested early this morning are both white. the victims of the shootings are all black. three were killed, two others wounded all shot with a small caliber weapon in a three-mile radius leading the police chief to mount an operation called operation random shooter. >> murder on the streets of tulsa. these were vicious and cowardly attacks. >> reporter: jordan said he expected identifying a suspect would be a challenge. but a spokesman said the department got a tip which led to the arrest of two men identified as 19-year-old jake england and 32-year-old alvin watts. they were taken into custody just north of tulsa in the early morning hours. authorities say the two will be charged with three counts of first degree murder and two counts of shooting with the intent to kill. for sunday morning, this is dave browde in new york. >> osgood: a contract dead line passed at midnight but at&t and 40,000 of its union workers are staying connected. talks have been extended to avoid the strike. issue: health care costs and job stability for the workers. one of a 100,000 people attended easter mass in st. peter's square today celebrated by pope benedict. the 84-year-old pontiff delivered his easter blessings in 65 languages. easter is the most joyous day on the christian calendar when the faithful believe christ rose from the grave. scientists at the u.s. geo logical survey are worried about a condition being noticed amongst alaskan polar bears along the beau fort sea. nine bears have been found woh2vñi skinúg )u causingñr;w,. ses philbñxdñi mickelsonw3'o4zs country this(eaír÷zh>éáhe!, of thew3ñiñir deep soby%.wçóñiu >> osgood: the shroud of turin has intrigued believers and non-believers alike for centuries. on this easter sunday morning our cover story is reported by martha teichner. >> reporter: it's possibly the greatest what-if in the world. what if the shroud of turin really is the burial cloth jesus was wrapped in. and the faint imprint on it the image of a man who had been tortured and crucified really is christ himself? the last time the shroud was on view six weeks in 2010, more than two million people saw it. even though in 1988 after a carbon dating test, it was declared a medieval fake dating from the middle ages. the story was supposed to be over. but tell that to the throngs who waited hours for the chance to spend seconds seconds before it in reverent silence. and tell that to scholars who point out that carbon dating results have often proved to be unreliable. scholars who believe the dating of the shroud is just plain wrong. >> this shows you how the crucifixion is envisaged throughout the middle ages and into the 20th century. >> reporter: among them art historian thomas dewesselow. >> if you look at the hands on the cross, the nails go through the center of the palms. >> reporter: this is one of the stations of the cross. at the church of saint ignatius loyala in new york city. dewesselow's whose specialty is medieval art, says artists in the middle ages incorrectly painted the nail holes through the palm. >> that part of the hand is not strong enough to bear the weight of the body. >> reporter: of course, that would mean that the image of the shroud supports the idea that it was much older than the middle ages. >> yeah. in the shroud the crucifixion has gone through the wrist. that's how they would have done it in roman times. >> reporter: an agnostic, originally a skeptic, he has just published a provocative new book about the shroud in which he concludes it's genuine. take me back to the events of good friday to easter. >> well, you can read it off the shroud. this is one of the most extraordinary things about this object. you start off with the flaj lags. that's very clearly presented on the shroud with these very, very distinct marks. he then is beaten. you can see on his face there are certain marks underneath one of his eyes with the swelling. his nose looks as if it's been broken. you can see the crown of thorns put on his face at the same time. >> reporter: where would be the puncture from the spear? >> and the spear is here and these are the dribbles of blood coming down. >> reporter: just owe incidence? but now here's the provocative part. dewesselow's take on the resurrection. what he says happened on easter day when mary magdalene and two other women went to jesus's tomb. >> they go into the tomb and they find the body of jesus draped in the shroud as we would expect. they lift off the cloth and they notice this strange shadowy form on the cloth itself. immediately they would have had this perception of it as a living presence in the tomb with jesus. >> reporter: they didn't see jesus come alive again? >> no. i think what they saw was the shroud. >> reporter: according to dewesselow, each supposed sighting of the risen christ was actually a sighting of the shroud. he's convinced "it "was what spark the rapid spread of christianity. the shroud was taken from jerusalem to gally and then to damascus, according to de bess dewesselow where he thinks paul saw it and became a christian. a relic thought by several important researchers to be the shroud next appeared in a town called edessa in turkey. then in the year 944 in constantinople. there's a drawing from the 1190s of what some scholars say had to have been the shroud. a french knight wrote about seeing such a cloth in constantinople before the city was sacked by crusaders in 1204. >> we can show partly rationally where the shroud was all the way back to the firstson... first century. >> reporter: more than a thousand years before it turned up in france where a man married to a descendent of one of the crusaders who led the sacking of constantinople put it on display in 1355 right about when the carbon dating results said it was faked. it's been in turin italy since 1578. >> it could well be the burial cloth of jesus. i wouldn't discount that possibility. that's part of the case to be made. the other part is trying to see how the discovery of this cloth might have functioned in generating belief about the resurrection. that's much more, in my mind, conjectural. >> reporter: harold atridge is dean of yale divinity school and an eminent new testament scholar. we asked him to read dewesselow's book. >> however this image was born, it was formed in a way that's compatible with the ancient practice of crucifixion. >> reporter: so that is at least plausible? >> that's at least plausible, yeah, yeah. and the blood stains, for instance, are clearly not paint. >> reporter: that much has been proven. but is it jesus or someone else? or is it an expert fake? in 1898, this man was allowed to photograph the shroud. the image he saw in his dark room startled the world. the shroud, it turns out, is like a negative. and his photo is the positive. >> people did not know about negative images in those days. no one could have produced that image or seen the realistic image that is hidden behind the negative image on the cloth. >> reporter: instead of a shadowy blur, thomas dewesselow has a medieval artist crafting a fake would have painted a bold outline around the figure because that was the style of the time. >> other images of christ which are meant to be imprints of his face dating from the middle ages. none of them look remotely like the shroud. >> reporter: in 1978 a group of respected american scientists and scholars, calling themselves the shroud of turin research project, were given 120 hours to subject the shroud to a c.s.oorx-like forensic study. working 24 hours a day, they set out to discover how the image was made, if it was a fake. they couldn't. how then did it get there? more recent research raises this possibility. >> what seems to have happened is that there was a chemical reaction between the decomposition products in the body and the car bow hydrates deposits on the cloth, on the very surface of the cloth. this reaction is familiar from food chemistry. it's the same reaction that causes a crust of bread to go brown in the oven. >> reporter: hd photography has brought new details to the case made by the cloth itself. its distinct herring bone weave. even the way a seam was sewn is consistent with ancient burial cloths found near jerusalem. pollen samples taken from it show that at some time it was near jerusalem and in turkey. for just a moment, suppose thomas dewesselow's theory is right, that the image on the shroud was what jesus's followers saw, not a live... not a living, breathing christ risen from the dead. the implication is stunning. if the shroud is as you believe authentic, and if the image on the shroud can be explained by scientific evidence, what does that do to the resurrection which is the cornerstone of christianity? >> well i'm obviously not the first person to deny that the resurrection happened. >> reporter: do you think it will be controversial? >> oh, yeah. i think there will be reactions to it. some people will dismiss it. some people will be intrigued by it. some people may change their attitudes. >> reporter: yale divinity school dean harold atridge. >> for many, many mainstream protestants and catholics certainly evangelical protestants, you have a notion that you need the resurrected body in the way it's described in places like luke and in john in order to have a robust resurrection. that was not paul's belief. paul did not have a belief in the physical resurrection of jesus. he had a belief in the resurrection that jesus was a transformation. i tend to agree with paul. but it remains something of a mystery. >> reporter: as does the history and meaning of the shroud of turin. there is, after all, the carbon dating evidence confirmed by three different labs. the catholic church, owner of the shroud, accepted those findings. but when it kass on display in 2010, pope benedict called it a burial cloth which wrapped the body of a man crucified in total conformity with what the evangelists tell us of jesus. so what is the truth? 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>> reporter: still, the tough guy image he cultivated in films such as dirty harry worked against him among some voters. >> we got along just fine until he threw his hat in the ring. his gun in the ring. >> reporter: despite the doubters, eastwood was overwhelming elected. he went on to serve a full two- year term. he rejected calls to run for higher office, returning instead to full-time acting and directing. winning four oscars along the way. >> get down. >> reporter: most recently the awards for best picture and best director for the 2004 film million dollar baby. as for car carmel by the sea, the town and its charm survived. clinton now owns a hotel and a restaurant on the edge of town. the spot he saved, the restaurant website makes a point of saying, from condo developers. watch your speed. a toll booth just ahead. of any interest to you?tlye well, in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. like the transatlantic cable that connected continents. and the panama canal that made our world a smaller place. we supported the marshall plan that helped europe regain its strength. and pioneered the atm, so you can get cash when you want it. it's been our privilege to back ideas like these, and the leaders behind them. so why should our anniversary matter to you? 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( applause ) >> reporter: today juster gets a rock star reception at places like the field school in washington dpg... washington d.c., where every single student read the book. >> he was bored which all kids are. they never know what they want to do. >> what we're talking about in the book are concerns and things that i think almost every child goes through. fears, uncertainties, apprehensions, misunderstandings. >> reporter: a 50th anniversary edition was recently published. with appreciation by other writers. >> where are your glasses. >> reporter: and generations of readers line up to get their sometimes tattered books signed. >> look at that. >> from 1971. i just want to thank you so much. i read the book when i was eight. when i was 13 and when i was 17 and now i'm 20. >> my pleasure. >> this is why you do these things. you want to make a connection between yourself and some anonymous readers out there who you will be important to and who are important to you in consequence. >> in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere and things to invent and make and build and break. and all the puzzle and excitement of everything he didn't know. >> reporter: what you're proudest of, of this book, is really the fact that people can read into it what they want. >> yes. with my delight and my blessing. >> osgood: food for thought, just ahead. >> osgood: the biblical accounts of holy week have inspired many great works of art, da vinci's last supper, for example. but what was for dinner at the last supper? here's josh landis and mitch butler of the fast draw. >> the last supper. almost 2,000 years after the plates were cleared we can still picture it. or so we think. of course there aren't any photographs from back then. but over the centuries artists have given us their renditions of this historic meal. >> a religious studies expert made a surprising discovery. he and his brother brian who is an expert on eating behavior analyzed more than 50 paintings of the last supper dating back to the 7th century. >> the thing that stood out is that the food sizes get larger. remarkable difference. >> as the centuries went by servings of bread increased 30%, plates grew 66% and portion sizes overall grew 69%. >> that's right. as time went on, artists super sized the last supper. >> not only that some of them completely changed the menu. in some paintings lamb was served. in others, roast pig. >> even though the only foods the bible actually describes are bread and wine. the artists were probably reflecting what increasingly healthy and hungry societies wanted. >> in terms of how food is portrayed i think what it does tell us is that the artistic ideal eventually becomes a reality. >> that's life imitating art. >> and giving chefs everywhere divine inspiration. >> osgood: ahead, a pilgrimage to lourdes. and next, easter sunday with franklin graham. by high cost investments and annoying account fees. at e-trade, our free easy-to-use online tools and experienced retirement specialists can help you build a personalized plan. and with our no annual fee iras and a wide range of low cost investments, you can execute the plan you want at a low cost. so meet with us, or go to etrade.com for a great retirement plan with low cost investments. ♪ [ female announcer ] with depression, simple pleasures can simply hurt. the sadness, anxiety, the loss of interest. the aches and pains and fatigue. depression hurts. cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing skin or eyes. tell your doctor about all your medicines, including those for migraine and while on cymbalta, call right away if you have high fever, confusion and stiff muscles or serious allergic skin reactions like blisters, peeling rash, hives, or mouth sores to address possible life-threatening conditions. talk about your alcohol use, liver disease and before you reduce or stop cymbalta. dizziness or fainting may occur upon standing. simple pleasures shouldn't hurt. talk to your doctor about cymbalta. depression hurts. cymbalta can help. >> there may never be another moment for you like this. this is is your big moment with god. don't you let distance keep you from coming. i know it's a long way in the balconyy. christ went all the way to the cross in your place. certainly you can come up a few feet and give your life to him. >> it's sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: that's billy graham, of course, preaching the gospel of faith and family back in 1957 at madison square garden in new york. these days he has passed the torch to his son, franklin graham who recently sat down with our cbs news colleague byron pitts of "60 minutes. ". >> jesus christ, the son of god, has an answer to every problem that you face. >> reporter: in his prime when billy graham preached.... >> you're lost. you're away from god. >> reporter:... it was as if heaven could hear him. >> jesus said, "i am truth." and if you're going to get to heaven, you have to believe that. >> reporter: it was old-time fire and brim stone in the cool new age of television. >> jesus belonged to all the people. ( applause ) >> reporter: and the world embraced it. but the world has changed. rev. graham is 93, made his last public appearance two years ago. his legacy is set. >> when jesus christ died on the cross, he took the sins of the world, past, present and the future. >> reporter: the brand name and the business now belong to his son franklin. >> and christ will come into your heart and make you a new person. >> reporter: but by his own admission, william franklin graham, iii, is no billy graham. >> you're viewed in the christian community one way. you're viewed in the secular world a different way. what are the two ways you think you're viewed? >> i think some people in the secular world may see me as some kind of right wipg zealot. many in the church would see me as somebody who is trying to hang on to the faith and who is faithful to the gospel of jesus christ. >> reporter: which are you? >> i hope i'm one that's faithful. >> reporter: over the years, franklin graham has had a habit of letting his expressions of faith land him in hot water. >> now, lord, we dedicate.... >> reporter: there was the presidential inauguration in 2001 when he made a point of invoking jesus' name in what is usually a non-denominational affair. >> we pray this in the name of the father and of the son the lord jesus christ. >> i don't believe that mohammed can lead anybody to god. >> reporter: just after 9/11 when he labeled islam a very evil and wicked religion. >> i don't agree with the teachings of islam. and i find it to be a very violent religion. >> do you believe that president obama is a christian? >> i think you have to ask president obama. >> reporter: in this year when he seemed to question president obama's faith. >> you don't take him at his word when he says i'm a christian. >> of course i do. you have to ask every person. he has said he's a christian. i have to assume that he is. >> reporter: you were asked whether you thought the president was a christian or not. why didn't you just say, i believe that he is. >> well because only god knows a person's heart. you can say well i'm a christian. god is the one who knows. god is the judge. so he says he's a christian. i accept that. but here's what the bible says. >> reporter: it sounds like... to me it sounds like that's like kissing your cousin. that wasn't a full endorsement of his faith. >> no. but i've been asked that about others. i don't know the heart... politicians, president obama is the one who is talking about his christianity. >> i haven't met you yet. >> reporter: but it's the way franklin graham articulates his faith has made him enemies, the way he executes it has won him praise. he runs a missionary relief organization called samaritan's purse which brings medical supplies, food and other help to more than 100 countries. from bosnia to somalia, haiti to disaster relief here in the u.s. what his father accomplished on stage, franklin graham is accomplishing in places beyond the spotlight. the father preferred suits. the son is a cow boy boots and blue jeannes man who says just what he thinks. >> i certainly don't mean to offend anybody. >> reporter: sure you do i think sometimes. don't you? >> no. >> reporter: sometimes? >> no. i'm not trying to pick a fight with anybody. i just want to tell the truth. >> reporter: it's in your dna. you've been picking fights since you were in high school. >> i've been fighting, defending myself. when you grow up as a preacher's boy you have to learn to take care of yourself. >> reporter: the preacher's boy grew up in the mountains of north carolina. but being the son of the era's foremost evangelist didn't impress him much. there's you. >> there's me. i was listening to my father's preaching. >> reporter: you look riveted there. >> i think i look a little bored. >> reporter: as a youngster franklin says he was attracted not to the gospel but to guns and motorcycles, cigarettes and alcohol. he says he tried marijuana just once. he was thrown out of high school and college. >> i wanted to be a hell raiser. live my own life. if it made people mad, tough. if it disappointed people, tough. that was kind of my attitude. >> reporter: that's like poster child preacher kid attitude. >> it was just my attitude. it was rebellion against god. i didn't want god in my life. i wanted to be free and i wanted to have fun. >> reporter: finally at age 22, his father gave him a choice. >> squared his shoulders up to me and looked at me and said franklin your mother and i sense there's a struggle for the soul of your life. there's no halfway. either you're going to have to accept jesus christ and what he says and obey him and follow him or you'll have to reject him. there's no middle ground. >> my daddy, dr. billy graham. daddy? >> he accepted christ, got married, started a family and soon embraced the family business. >> we have people that come sometimes multiple times a week. >> reporter: today there's the charity work. the billy graham library and the billy graham evangelistic association all still based in north carolina. family is everywhere. just down a serene path from the library is a burial plot. >> my mother is buried right here. i want you to look at this. >> reporter: where his father will one day join his mother. >> my father will be buried right here. my grandfather built this home. >> reporter: in billy's nearby childhood home, visitors are greeted by kathy bowers one of franklin's cousins. >> it truly is a continuing crusade. you know, the gospel continues to go forward day after day. people meet the lord here for the first time. that's what we're about. >> reporter: why does every member of your family start preaching to me? >> it's just the way we are: this is where i work out of. >> reporter: his office reflects the passions of a man. >> this is a black bear from up in alberta. >> reporter: whose heart has never left the blue ridge mountains. i've been in the offices of a few preachers. none quite like this. certainly not with this many guns. what does your office say about you? >> i like the outdoors. these old guns i've always enjoyed guns. >> reporter: billy graham delivered his message from stadiums around the world. franklin spreads his from the sprawling campus of office buildings and warehouses. and behind every incubator.... >> we collect about nine million of these gifts right here. >> reporter: behind every christmas gift is a higher purpose. do you think that your work is having the same kind of impact that your father's work had? >> it's different. it's impacting the lifes of people. no question. absolutely. the greatest work that i can do is not how many hospital beds i can send or how much medical equipment i can give away. it's how many people's lives i can impact with the gospel. >> reporter: now 59, graham believes he's mellowed some with age. mellowed, not softened. >> jesus said, "i am the truth." >> reporter: he insists that the theology of the father is the same for the son. >> jesus christ gave his life for you. will you accept him tonight by faith. >> reporter: there is only one path to salvation. >> jesus christ came on a rescue mission. >> reporter: for franklin graham, the times may have changed but the word never will. >> christ died for the whole world. and if a muslim wants to come to god, he has to come through christ. if a buddhist wants to come to god, he has to come to god through jesus christ. there is no other way to god. >> reporter: is there any place in your mind where you think maybe i'm wroj? ... maybe i'm wrong? maybe as i evolve more as a man i'll come to a new realization about that? >> no. the bible is the word of god. and every word is true. cover to cover. >> osgood: next, a moment of silence >> osgood: it happened this week, the loss of three artists in very different fields. car designer ferdinand alexander porsche died thursday in austria at the age of 76. the grandson of the founder of the german auto maker, ferdinand porsche designed the porsche 11 sports car, widely hailed as the perfect blend of form and function when it was released in the 1960s. though since remodeled six times over, the porsche 911 retains the basic design of the original. by retaining the loyalty of fans around the world. jim marshal died thursday in london at the age of 88. marshal didn't invent the amplifier. he just made it louder, a lot louder. a drum store owner with an engineering background, marshal developed his name sake amplifier in the early 1960s at the urging of rock musicians like the who's peter townsend who wanted louder and fuzzier sound. soon stacks of marshal amplifiers were staples on every rock concert stage. and rob reiner's 1984 faux documentary "this is spinal tap," rock musician played by christopher guest explains how he would renumber the volume control on his marshal in the delusional belief that it would sound even louder. >> the numbers all go to 11. look. right across the board. 11, 11, 11. >> amps go up to ten. does that mean it's any louder? >> well, it's one louder, sint it? >> osgood: not that the marshal needed any relabeling. as most concert goers would agree, ten on one of the marshal amplifiers is quite loud enough. and we learned of the pass of thomas kinkaid, a very popular painter who died friday at his california home. warm and cozy images of home and hearth were his unmistakable trademark. high artists didn't hold his work in high regard but that didn't bother him. he was trying to do what art what author daniel steel was doing for romance novels. >> there have been million dollar books and cds but not until now million dollar art. >> osgood: the figures seemed to bear him out. his paintings are said to hang in some ten million american homes. about one home in 20. the family spokesman says he appears to have died of natural causes. thomas kinkaid was just 54. coming up, in search of a cure. >> osgood: desperately ill people are willing to travel great distances in search of a miracle. one destination in particular as our david turecamo now shows us. >> reporter: well, i probably formed an impression of lourdes even before that storm my first night. i guess i come here expecting to find thousands of sick people, dying, desperate. and yet i wanted to do this story because a few years ago a friend of mine took his mother to lourdes. she had been given six months to live. she lived another four-and-a-half years. why? i mean, lourdes is just a little town in southern france with a population of about 15,000. but in all of france only paris has more hotels because between four and six million people come to the sanctuary of lourdes every year. not tourists but pilgrims like this family from california. >> we're hoping for a miracle. and blessings for everybody. for my family. >> reporter: there was jamie, a quadriplegic since birth. >> what am i going to do for the rest of my life? where am i going to go? >> reporter: and pete has lung cancer. >> i have a couple more years to live and i would like to extend that a little longer until my daughter gets out of college. >> he's exhausted all of his chemotherapy. there's no more for him. >> reporter: and mary o'sullivan the retired air force doctor and marine watkins. >> don't have a college degree. >> reporter: and these are just some of the americans. you see people from all over the world. they come because of the very first miracle. it happened here in this grotto. the vir i didn't know mary is believed to have appeared 18 times to a poor uneducated teenager who we've come to know as bernieradette of lourdes. during one vision where mary appeared this spring began to flow. there was an 1858. and within a year thousands of people were coming here. the water is said to have remarkable healing powers. but what can it really do? do miracles still happen here? dr. al send row. the medical director of lourdes. >> this is the oldest. >> reporter: he chairs a panel of as many as 100 doctors because every year they receive 30 to 40 reports of miracles. they'll follow each case an average of ten years to review the biopsies, the examinations, the scanners, the clinical facts to rigorous observation. because of the 7,000 cases on file, the church has recognized just 67--67! -- cases as true miracles. the rest are deemed.... >> unexplained cures. >> as a physician, i know people get better from things that, you know, there are times you just don't know how it happened. >> reporter: so i kind of think the real miracle of lourdes are stories of people like marlene. >> about my friend. she won the tickets could tom here. i never... i didn't really know lourdes. >> reporter: it might have been by chance, but she saw a need. >> because for some it is their dying wish to come here. maybe all the money spent on medications and dreams and they're sick and out of work for those who are handicapped oftentimes there's not the opportunity for them to come without help or assistance let alone without an income. >> reporter: think about bringing somebody in a wheelchair, on a respirator, somebody who requires full-time care. think of that one person and then multiplyed by millions and realize the sanctuary of lourdes has a full-time staff of 500 but it takes 5,000 volunteers every week to maintain it, organize it, and even the people who train the volunteers are long-time volunteers themselves. >> you have to lift higher. >> first of all you have to know where the brakes are because if you're going to leave them, you have to set the brakes so they don't run away from you. >> reporter: this man is a high school math teacher. >> this is my second time here. i did some other things at home. i like going to the katrina hurricane recovery and floods in cedar rapids iowa. different things like that. >> reporter: dan is a washington lobbyist. this is his second time. >> love. love. >> reporter: and this woman came from wisconsin. >> i thought i wasn't going to have enough to come on the trip. i was going to sell one of my.... >> reporter: she was tilling to... willing to sell her cow to wash dishes because bridget and dan paid their own way to volunteer with the organization that marlene founded, the north american lourdes volunteers. it was after her pilgrimage ten years ago that marlene dedicated herself to bringing not only sorely needed volunteers but pilgrims who might otherwise not be able to come. 15 times a year the organization brings as many as 160 people. they stay in a combination hospice, hospitality center and all the volunteers from every country live like this. the volunteers come to give a week or in some cases a lifetime. like harry donnelly. >> i started coming when i was in school. i just kept coming every year after that. i loved it. >> reporter: how many years? >> 3 years. >> every year i go home after every trip here with fond memories of somebody, a little touch, a smile, just can't explain it. >> i believe the miracles that are really profound that happen don't ever go to the organization. the people who are suffering from severe depression, mental illness, people with addictions, those never go to the medical bureau because you can't x-ray that. >> reporter: this was jamie's 8th pilgrimage because after his first marlene asked him to be her special advisor on issues faced by the disabled. >> i have turned this into a vision to make a change either in myself or in somebody else's life. >> reporter: as for pete, sadly he died just a few months later. and while it may not have been a miracle, he clearly found something. >> i haven't seen you out of your wheelchair. >> yeah, i feel great. i don't know why. but i do feel great. >> osgood: the remarkable story of jim abbott. >> are you ready? >> osgood: just ahead. >> nice, perfect. >> osgood: and later, the art of the egg shell. this child is taking a test. all he has to do to pass... is have a better night. which means helping put bedwetting frustrations... midnight sheet changes... and mommy wake up calls. to bed. introducing new goodnites bed mats. if your child is bedwetting, take the goodnites better night test. just place, peel, and protect. and see how goodnites bed mats can help. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just the essential nutrients, so i'm at my best. centrum. always your most complete. >> it's sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: it's a rite of spring, the beginning of the baseball season. hope springs eternal for players and fans alike. nobody is perfect, of course. but there are countless stories of baseball heroes including the one lee cowan has to tell us now in this sunday profile. >> parker, here we go, bud. nice rip. trap it in there. >> reporter: out of all the baseball games played in the last few days, this one was especially sweet. >> that was a good hit. you have a great swing. >> reporter: as little leaguers go, every player here is special. each is facing either a mental or physical challenge. but the man they doned their uniforms for today was here to show them that baseball doesn't discriminate. >> what happened to your hand? >> i was born like this. when i grew up, i only had one hand so i had to learn to play baseball with just one hand. sometimes it's just as simple as that, just breaking the ice saying, hey, i was born this way. i had to learn to do things a little bit differently. you know what? here i am. >> reporter: he went from a struggling little leaguer to university of michigan standout to an olympic gold medal. that's all before jim abbott made history at yankee stadium. >> announcer: abbott with a fly ball. left center field. long run bernie williams. he's there. two outs in the ninth. with this catch, the fans are on their feet. >> reporter: he did more with one hand than many players dream of doing with two. when did you start getting interested in sports? >> i never remember not being interested in sports. you know, i never remember not, not being a fan. >> reporter: do you remember wondering whether you'd be able to do sports? without a hand? >> no. i thought i could do it all. i thought i could throw. i thought i could kick. i thought i could run. whatever it took to get in the game i was going to figure out a way to do it. >> reporter: he's still figuring out ways to do it, whatever the sport. >> i'm fortunate i have this much of my arm to work with and this much of my hand to be able to guide the club and balance it. >> reporter: he spent his life teeing up expectations and knocking them out of sight. he thought once he got married, retired from baseball and had two daughters that the questions about his hand might stop. instead it was his youngest ella who innocently asked one question that no one else ever had. >> she said, dad, do you like your little hand? that took me down a path of thinking about, do i like this? you know, do i like what it has meant to my life? my answer to her was, yes. >> reporter: his new book, imperfect is the rest of the answer to her simple question. was there a moment that you remember where you really noticed that you were different? >> i think going to school for the first time. when i was in kindergarten i wore a metal hook that was big and clunky and cumbersome and obviously drew a lot of attention. >> reporter: was being teased and taunted out on the playground debilitating? >> it was hard. there's no question about it. i went around a lot with my hand in my pocket. i still do. >> reporter: even now? >> even now. even now. in certain situations. it's just a habit. >> reporter: jim's parents mike and kathy abbott didn't know why their son was born that way. neither did doctors. what they did know is it couldn't be an excuse. >> there wasn't coddling. you know if i came home from a playground for a came or something and said i didn't get picked i was encouraged to get right back out there. my dad and mom would talk about walking up to people and introducing yourself and don't shy away from that. that was incredibly important. >> reporter: he didn't want pity. like all kids, he just wanted to play. >> i had a belief in what i could do if i was given a chance. if i could find a way, i felt like i could prove myself. if i was picked last at least i was in the game and i had an ambition to go out there and not be picked last next time. >> reporter: did you make it with chalk or tape? chalk, yeah. i remember the grittiness of that chalk kind of, you know, the whole thing would break apart as you went down the brick. >> reporter: it was the brick wall of his childhood home in flint michigan that became his teacher and a teammate helping him figure out the art of switching his glove to make his catching hand his pitching hand too. >> i had this rubber coated baseball. i would throw it against there and try to get the glove back on before it bounced back at me. i remember breaking one of these windows at some point, being in trouble with my mom and dad. >> reporter: it soon become apparent the kid with one hand had one heck of an arm. he went from being picked last to first. it was here on this little league field he began to fine tune his throw. you could always pitch hard. >> i could throw. i could throw it hard but i didn't necessarily know where it was going. >> reporter: by the time he got to flint central high school, he got his pitching sorted out. and he could hit too. including a game-winning home run he remembers to this day. >> i knew i hit it well but there was the high screen out there. i thought i would hit the fence and stop and maybe get a double or something. i ran as fast as i could. all of a sudden i saw my coach jumping up and down over here and the teammates here and the game was over. i didn't ever remember having a walk-off home run in my life. >> reporter: he was such a good athlete the football coach wanted him too. as the quarterback. abbott led the team to the state semi-finals. there were still the looks and the stairs but there were accolades too. in 1987, he was named nation's best amateur athlete. in 1988 he was selected as the starting pitcher for the u.s. olympic baseball team. >> ventura throws on to martinez. usa. >> reporter: when they beat japan in the final game, few were talking about jim's missing hand anymore. just his gold medal arm. >> could have retired then and there and been happy. >> reporter: not a bad way to go out. >> not a bad way. >> reporter: then an even bigger dream came true. jim made it to the majors as a first-round draft pick for the california angels. >> abbott's first professional pitch is a fastball for a strike. >> reporter: what were the guys on the temperature like? did they think you were sort of a novelty or sort of a stunt? >> nothing was proven. i still had a long way to go to try to stay in the major leagues. but i felt like for that moment at least i was being judged for how i could pitch. >> reporter: just when he felt he was like everybody else came a fan base who reminded him he wasn't. >> families started to come. moms and dads. little boys and little girls. facing challenges. i can't even begin to describe. you know, you would be signing autographs and the hat is being thrown at you and the cards and everything. all of a sudden it would be a boy or a girl just sitting there, you know, i'd actually hear parents say show him, honey, show him your hand. kids who just weren't going to let the circumstances of their life be an excuse. they were bound and determined to make the most of what they had been given, whatever it was. i knew that baseball was my chance to do that. i was inspired to be the best baseball player i could be. >> announcer: and the pitch is in for a strike. >> reporter: on september 4, 1993, as a new york yankee, he was. >> announcer: and a ground ball to short. he did it! he did it! no-hitter for jim abbott. >> just for a moment time stops. there's this roar in your head and this excitement and these teammates and what do we do? you know, we hug and jump up and down and then now what? >> announcer: what an emotional moment for jim abbott. and the fans in jim abbott's corner all the way today. >> reporter: did you ever think about your hand that night? >> no. i felt like being a pitcher. i felt like being a yankee. i net like being a teammate. my hand played zero role in that day. >> reporter: even though it's been more than a decade since he played.... >> do you want to see jack. >> reporter: he gets new fans every day. >> it's a pleasure to meet you. how about your grades? you. how about your grades? are you getting good grades? >> yeah. >> good, good. that's important. >> nice to meet you, buddy. good luck. >> can you do it one more time? >> i love your motion. i was a lefty just like you. are you ready? nice. perfect. >> they've described my play in these beautiful terms. courageous, motivational. inspirational. it was none of those things. to me. it was... i was doing something that i loved to do. >> jack, can you keep this ball? that's for you, buddy. >> that's what i would like to encourage people to do. find something you love to do in this world. don't let anybody ever change your opinion that you can do it. >> you're the man! >> you're the man. >> osgood: coming up, the question of iran. captain, we have to keep going! 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